Perth BitDevs

Monthly socratic seminar exploring Bitcoin development, protocol changes, and the broader technical ecosystem.

Next: Thursday 2 July 2026 · 6pm · Rocky Ridge, Burswood

First Thursday of each month · About

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2026
Thursday 4 June 2026 →
June 2026
Silent Payments in Sparrow 2.5.x, post-quantum Bitcoin (QCAP, lattice signatures, P2WOTS, SPHINCS+), BIP-110 watch, consensus changes (BIP-54, BIP-449, BIP 3), CTV vaults and covenant exits, Lightning DoS disclosures and v26.06/LND RCs, news roundup.
7 topics Interactive slides
7 May 2026 →
May 2026
News roundup, BIP-110 status and discourse, quantum update, governance, alt-client watch, Bisq v1 exploit, Sztorc's eCash hard fork, new BIPs, and Australian Bush Bash 2026 schedule.
9 topics Interactive slides
2 April 2026 →
April 2026
BIP-54 consensus cleanup proposal & deployment debate, BIP-110 Sybil nodes & crawler data, PQ lattice-based HD wallets, SHRIMPS multi-device PQ signatures, IBD optimizations, Bitcoin TUI, fuzzing dashboard, channel splicing BOLT merged, rare 2-block reorg, silent payments adoption & BIP-392.
10 topics Interactive slides
5 March 2026 →
March 2026
BIP-110 bugs, defections & first signaled block, contiguous data without OP_RETURN, Gloria Zhao steps down, Core v31 & cluster mempool, quantum resistance, PQ signatures on Liquid, PIPEs v2, Binohash, FIBRE resurrected, 24-bit nVersion nonce space, Nested MuSig2, Sloth messaging, Cake Wallet Lightning, phishing attacks.
15 topics Interactive slides
5 February 2026 →
February 2026
BIP-110 deep dive, private transaction broadcast (PR #29415), Core v30 wallet migration bug, new maintainer TheCharlatan, mining software stack & MiningOS, OpenClaw agent security.
6 topics Interactive slides
2025
December 2025→
December 2025
Lava custody analysis, BIP-444 on-chain bets, Keonne Rodriguez sentenced, consensus code C API, cluster mempool merged, ZK proofs for Cashu.
November 2025→
November 2025, Bushbash Edition
Chain code delegation BIP, large OP_RETURNs since v30, BIP-444 deep dive, DNS seed removal, BitVM2 unhappy path, Beacon 21M.
October 2025→
October 2025
Flat blockchain storage cost, Macadamia ecash on iMessage, Rusty Russell BIP quartet, datacarrier deprecation reversal, global liquidity and Bitcoin.
September 2025→
September 2025
Glock (Garbled Locks), lowest fees since 2011, minimum relay feerate merged, bitcoinfuzz differential fuzzing, sharing block templates.
August 2025→
August 2025
RGB in production, White Noise on Nostr, Samourai guilty pleas, Block Augur fee estimator, Cashu in WhatsApp, Simplicity on Liquid.
July 2025→
July 2025
Zeus wallet upgrade, Filter Wars, CTV & CSFS letter (70 devs), BitVM3, Frostsnap, Ashigaru Whirlpool.
June 2025→
June 2025
OP_RETURN continued, Chaincode quantum report, Lightning Blinder, Arkade, Liana wallet, Square BTC POS, Citrea BitVM.
May 2025→
May 2025
SwiftSync, Bitcoin Core v29.0, Twenty One Capital, OP_RETURN drama, Consensus Cleanup BIP, ESP32 CVE, UTXOscope.
April 2025→
April 2025
Strategic Bitcoin Reserve EO, TROPIC01 secure element, Demand Pool/Stratum V2, AntPool centralisation, CISA, PSBT Explorer.
March 2025→
March 2025
Obscura VPN, ByBit hack, Apple/UK backdoor, LNbits, Bitcoin Inquisition v28.1, Hashpool, Nostr Wallet Connect.
February 2025→
February 2025
Telehash fundraiser, Czech National Bank, US state reserve proposals, Ark Wallet SDK, Ross freed, Sparrow v2.1.1, DeepSeek.
January 2025→
January 2025
Lend a Sat, Miniscript/AnchorWatch, Bitcoin hitting 100K, Nunchuk Taproot Multisig.
2024
December 2024→
December 2024, Christmas Catch Up
Casual end-of-year drinks and catch up.
November 2024→
November 2024
Non-soft-fork covenants, seed phrase dice rolling demo, Apple homomorphic encryption, Orange Wave, Free Ross Q&A.
October 2024→
October 2024
SuperScalar, Ark on mainnet, Haven Nostr relay, Cashu/eCash zaps, Ashigaru, NerdQaxe, Ocean DATUM, YubiKey vulnerability.
September 2024→
September 2024, WA Bush BitDevs
BitVM2 Bridges, Xpub wallet recovery, Nostr & eCash, BOLT 12 on LND-K, FROST Lightning, Mercury Layer disclosure, Alby Hub.
August 2024→
August 2024, Bush Bash
YubiKeys, SeedXOR, Shamir Secret Sharing, Bush Bash consensus chat.
July 2024→
July 2024
Quantum resistance BIP, Trezor SLIP-0039, Brollups, SeedSigner multisig demo, CUSF, EU e2e encryption debate.
June 2024→
June 2024
Axiom of Resistance, Silent Payments (BIP-352), Great Script Restoration, Tornado Cash ruling, NerdAXE, Wasabi Wallet.
May 2024→
May 2024
Side Pools, Bitcoin co-option debate, BitVM security, ZK coins by Robin Linus, Samourai-to-Sparrow migration, Antminer S9 demo.
April 2024→
April 2024
Hedgehog channels, Runes launch at the halving, XZ/OpenSSH backdoor, SeedSigner GPG verification, Cashu multinuteral payments, BIP-42.
March 2024→
March 2024
Bitstake (PoS sidechain via BitVM), UTXO consolidation, Marathon direct tx submission, Braiins Lightning payouts, Bitcoin Knots on Start9.
February 2024→
February 2024
BlueWallet Lightning, Fedimint hands-on, Ark custodial debate, Bitaroo BPAY, Citrea ZK Rollups, COPA trial, Bitcoin in SMSF.
January 2024→
January 2024
Fork activation methods (BIP 8/9, MASF, UASF), the BIPs repository, reusable payment codes (BIP-47, BIP-352).
2023
December 2023→
December 2023
OCEAN mining, the 84 BTC fee, Lightning stable channels, DLCs on Nostr, Coldcard security incident.